Referencing

At university, your work needs to be approached with honesty and integrity. This means giving credit when it's due and acknowledging works and ideas that are not your own, including if and how GenAI has been used in your assignments. If you use GenAI in any element of your work, the person that marks it needs to know what's yours and what comes from somewhere else. Additionally, many library database agreements contain clauses around the use of AI, so please read the conditions of use to ensure you understand your obligations. 

Check out the interactive book below for summary on acknowledgeing the use of GenAI in your assessments, and refer to cite|write for detailed instructions on how to reference GenAI.

GenAI won't state that it is unable to provide a correct answer. Instead, it generates a false answer that appears to be correct, this is known as an AI hallucination. For example, if you ask ChatGPT to write a news story covering the financial earnings of a company it might include a non-existent quote from the CFO or CEO, because it knows these stories usually include one, so it makes one up. As a result, any form of academic writing can be filled with fictional citations or references because the model knows that there should be one. Basically, its job is not to be right 100% of the time, it is to sound convincing enough most of the time. Always ensure you verify GenAI content, including checking if references are real! 

The interactive book below provides example for referencing AI generated content and images in your assessments.